{"id":4056,"date":"2011-06-08T13:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2011-10-24T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T18:53:06","slug":"2012-mlb-draft-preview-arizona%e2%80%99s-kurt-heyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4056","title":{"rendered":"2012 MLB Draft Preview: Kurt Heyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Heyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4057\" title=\"Heyer\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Heyer-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Heyer-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Heyer-1024x846.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Heyer.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Whitney graduating from U of A a couple of weeks ago, I thought I should write up the ace of that staff, sophomore Kurt Heyer.\u00a0 Heyer had a truly remarkable season as the Friday-nighter for Arizona posting a 2.41 ERA in 130.2 IP with 128 K\u2019s and only 25 BB.\u00a0 His numbers were stellar, and Heyer will be one of the top arms in the PAC-10 in 2012 as well.\u00a0 Heyer has terrific sink on his fastball, which allowed him to keep the ball in the yard quite well despite the thin Tucson air.\u00a0 He only allowed 5 homers and 25 XBH\u2019s in his 19 2011 starts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Heyer\u2019s fastball works in the low to mid-90\u2019s with good arm-side run and sink.\u00a0 His slider has decent tilt and projects as a 60 pitch in the pro\u2019s.\u00a0 His changeup is behind, but it still has a chance at a solid-average grading come next June.\u00a0 Heyer\u2019s command and ability to keep the ball on the ground are terrific.\u00a0 His body projects well at 6\u20192\u201d and 198 lbs.\u00a0 With an arm slot in the low to mid-3\/4 range and a strong lower half, there are no obvious red flags in his delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Heyer should land in the first half of the 2012 draft, and a top-10 pick is certainly within reach.\u00a0 I am tremendously impressed with what he has accomplished in his two seasons at U of A as their clear #1 starter.\u00a0 Despite the fact that Mark Appel of Stanford will be returning to his role as the ace at Stanford in 2012, Kurt Heyer could very well finish his career as the best arm in the PAC-10.<\/p>\n<p>I encouraged Whitney and all of her friends to check this guy out before they graduated, but it is looking more and more likely that their first glimpse of him will perhaps have to be on a television screen shot either from Omaha or the Bigs.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Whitney graduating from U of A a couple of weeks ago, I thought I should write up the ace of that staff, sophomore Kurt Heyer.\u00a0 Heyer had a truly remarkable season as the Friday-nighter for Arizona posting a 2.41 ERA in 130.2 IP with 128 K\u2019s and only 25 BB.\u00a0 His numbers were stellar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2830,7,15,1300,6,9,11,13,10,14],"tags":[2310,2309,719,1729,188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}